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For the first time ever,
Bloomington's own hockey
team, the Prairie Thunder,
will be hosting an IWU-themed
game tonight,
Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:05 p.m.
The team will wear IWU-themed
jerseys to be auc-tioned
off after the game and
will also offer tickets to
Illinois Wesleyan students at
a drastically reduced price.
This game marks the first
college-themed night at U.S.
Cellular Coliseum. IWU students
are excited to attend and take
advantage of the discounted ticket
price.
If purchased at Illinois
Wesleyan’s business office or
bookstore, IWU students can pur-chase
tickets for $6 apiece, which
is less than half than the original
ticket price.
If they wear Titan gear to the
game and purchase their tickets at
the Coliseum, students will
receive $2 off of the regu-lar
admission price.
“I think it's a steal. It'll
definitely get a lot of nor-mally
cash-strapped stu-dents
out to the game,”
junior Monica Piotrowski
said. “I will definitely be
attending.”
It also helps that comple-mentary
shuttles will take
students from the Hansen
Student Center to the
Customers nationwide smiled
with satisfaction when department
stores were forced to give away
$175 million worth of cosmetics
as part of a class-action lawsuit.
In 2003, prosecutors in
California filed a lawsuit against
department stores and cosmetic
manufacturers, claiming that the
companies conspired to maintain
high prices for cosmetics. The
court ruling required companies to
give away $175 million in cosmet-ics
at all stores across the nation,
including Bloomington-Normal’s
Bergner's and Macy's.
For one week, which started
Tuesday, Jan. 20, or until supplies
at each location ran out, con-sumers
were allowed one specific
product from luxury cosmetic
brands such as Chanel, Christian
Dior and Esteé Lauder if they
signed a release confirming that
they bought a product from one of
the department store defendants
between May 1994 and July 2003.
With such an outpouring of free
cosmetics across the nation, it was
no wonder the stores’ free prod-uctsics
disappeared so quickly.
“By the end of the first day, we
were completely out of products,”
the January 30, 2009
Argus VOLUME 115 | ISSUE 14 Illinois Wesleyan University
FEATURES, P. 5 OP/ED, P. 9 SPORTS, P. 16
Saturday
High: 30 Low: 28
Sunday
High: 33 Low: 20
Student applauds Weather
Obama’s “green”
actions
IWU senior
organizes student
mother support
group
Franz
Ferdinand
album review
IWU women’s
basketball
breaks school
winning record
NEWS, P. 3
CHRISTINE ANDERSON
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
SEE PRAIRIE THUNDER, P.3
Students hurt along with Bloomington’s Prairie Thunder host IWU
the economy in job search
As the global economy carries
its struggles into the New Year,
Illinois Wesleyan University sen-iors
face an unwelcoming job mar-ket.
According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, 1.9 million
Americans lost their jobs between
September and December of 2008,
and the job market’s forecast
remains uncertain and pessimistic.
“Organizations and businesses
already notified us they will not be
on campus to conduct interviews
for this spring,” Warren Kistner,
director of the Hart Career Center,
said.
Kistner sees this year’s job out-look
as far more competitive than
in previous years. Already, he
says the class of 2009 has had
more difficulty securing positions
in the work force than graduating
classes in the past.
“Students will need to be very
proactive in conducting their job
searches,” Kistner said. “Plan to
start early, tap all available
resources and have realistic expec-tations.”
Those expectations include
fewer positions open to recent
graduates, heightened competition
with experienced workers, less
recruitment on the behalf of com-panies,
and requirements of exten-sive
experience in related fields.
“I’m looking for a job in public
relations or communications. But,
because of the economy, I am try-ing
to keep an open mind, know-ing
my dream job may not be
readily available for me upon
graduation,” senior Kim Stabosz
said.
The Hart Career Center is an on-campus
resource designed to help
students approach the anticipated
challenges of the current job mar-ket
with confidence.
In addition to providing an
Alumni Mentoring Program that
connects students with IWU alum-ni
working in related fields, the
career center offers mock inter-view
opportunities, a database
called eRecruiting that allows stu-dents
to post resumes online for
potential employers, access to the
Illinois Small College Placement
Association (ISCPA) online career
center as well as online career bul-letin
subscriptions.
Reading or listening to the news
can help students identify specific
changes in the job market and
develop the skills to respond to
them.
To assist with job searches, the
ISCPA will host Career Fest on
Friday, Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. at the Drury Lane Theatre in
Oakbrook Terrace, IL. The dead-line
for students to pre-register is
Friday, Feb. 6. The pre-registra-tion
cost is $10, while the on-site
registration is $20.
Internships
The economic downturn has
made it just as difficult to secure
internships, which are becoming
NICOLE TRAVIS
NEWS EDITOR
SEE ECONOMY, P.4
Free cosmetics attract shoppers nationwide
CHRISTINE ANDERSON
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
Above: Sophomore Linda Ruan shops for free cosmetics at
Eastland Mall.
SEE COSMTETICS P.4
PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINEMCMAHON
LOGO COURTESY OF PRAIRIETHUNDER.COM

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For the first time ever,
Bloomington's own hockey
team, the Prairie Thunder,
will be hosting an IWU-themed
game tonight,
Friday, Jan. 30, at 7:05 p.m.
The team will wear IWU-themed
jerseys to be auc-tioned
off after the game and
will also offer tickets to
Illinois Wesleyan students at
a drastically reduced price.
This game marks the first
college-themed night at U.S.
Cellular Coliseum. IWU students
are excited to attend and take
advantage of the discounted ticket
price.
If purchased at Illinois
Wesleyan’s business office or
bookstore, IWU students can pur-chase
tickets for $6 apiece, which
is less than half than the original
ticket price.
If they wear Titan gear to the
game and purchase their tickets at
the Coliseum, students will
receive $2 off of the regu-lar
admission price.
“I think it's a steal. It'll
definitely get a lot of nor-mally
cash-strapped stu-dents
out to the game,”
junior Monica Piotrowski
said. “I will definitely be
attending.”
It also helps that comple-mentary
shuttles will take
students from the Hansen
Student Center to the
Customers nationwide smiled
with satisfaction when department
stores were forced to give away
$175 million worth of cosmetics
as part of a class-action lawsuit.
In 2003, prosecutors in
California filed a lawsuit against
department stores and cosmetic
manufacturers, claiming that the
companies conspired to maintain
high prices for cosmetics. The
court ruling required companies to
give away $175 million in cosmet-ics
at all stores across the nation,
including Bloomington-Normal’s
Bergner's and Macy's.
For one week, which started
Tuesday, Jan. 20, or until supplies
at each location ran out, con-sumers
were allowed one specific
product from luxury cosmetic
brands such as Chanel, Christian
Dior and Esteé Lauder if they
signed a release confirming that
they bought a product from one of
the department store defendants
between May 1994 and July 2003.
With such an outpouring of free
cosmetics across the nation, it was
no wonder the stores’ free prod-uctsics
disappeared so quickly.
“By the end of the first day, we
were completely out of products,”
the January 30, 2009
Argus VOLUME 115 | ISSUE 14 Illinois Wesleyan University
FEATURES, P. 5 OP/ED, P. 9 SPORTS, P. 16
Saturday
High: 30 Low: 28
Sunday
High: 33 Low: 20
Student applauds Weather
Obama’s “green”
actions
IWU senior
organizes student
mother support
group
Franz
Ferdinand
album review
IWU women’s
basketball
breaks school
winning record
NEWS, P. 3
CHRISTINE ANDERSON
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
SEE PRAIRIE THUNDER, P.3
Students hurt along with Bloomington’s Prairie Thunder host IWU
the economy in job search
As the global economy carries
its struggles into the New Year,
Illinois Wesleyan University sen-iors
face an unwelcoming job mar-ket.
According to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, 1.9 million
Americans lost their jobs between
September and December of 2008,
and the job market’s forecast
remains uncertain and pessimistic.
“Organizations and businesses
already notified us they will not be
on campus to conduct interviews
for this spring,” Warren Kistner,
director of the Hart Career Center,
said.
Kistner sees this year’s job out-look
as far more competitive than
in previous years. Already, he
says the class of 2009 has had
more difficulty securing positions
in the work force than graduating
classes in the past.
“Students will need to be very
proactive in conducting their job
searches,” Kistner said. “Plan to
start early, tap all available
resources and have realistic expec-tations.”
Those expectations include
fewer positions open to recent
graduates, heightened competition
with experienced workers, less
recruitment on the behalf of com-panies,
and requirements of exten-sive
experience in related fields.
“I’m looking for a job in public
relations or communications. But,
because of the economy, I am try-ing
to keep an open mind, know-ing
my dream job may not be
readily available for me upon
graduation,” senior Kim Stabosz
said.
The Hart Career Center is an on-campus
resource designed to help
students approach the anticipated
challenges of the current job mar-ket
with confidence.
In addition to providing an
Alumni Mentoring Program that
connects students with IWU alum-ni
working in related fields, the
career center offers mock inter-view
opportunities, a database
called eRecruiting that allows stu-dents
to post resumes online for
potential employers, access to the
Illinois Small College Placement
Association (ISCPA) online career
center as well as online career bul-letin
subscriptions.
Reading or listening to the news
can help students identify specific
changes in the job market and
develop the skills to respond to
them.
To assist with job searches, the
ISCPA will host Career Fest on
Friday, Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. at the Drury Lane Theatre in
Oakbrook Terrace, IL. The dead-line
for students to pre-register is
Friday, Feb. 6. The pre-registra-tion
cost is $10, while the on-site
registration is $20.
Internships
The economic downturn has
made it just as difficult to secure
internships, which are becoming
NICOLE TRAVIS
NEWS EDITOR
SEE ECONOMY, P.4
Free cosmetics attract shoppers nationwide
CHRISTINE ANDERSON
ASST. NEWS EDITOR
Above: Sophomore Linda Ruan shops for free cosmetics at
Eastland Mall.
SEE COSMTETICS P.4
PHOTO COURTESY OF CAROLINEMCMAHON
LOGO COURTESY OF PRAIRIETHUNDER.COM